thaumaturgic

Lastly, powerfulest of all, least recognised of all, a Noblesse of Literature; without steel on their thigh, without gold in their purse, but with the “grand thaumaturgic faculty of Thought” in their head.

1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Realised Ideals”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (Death of Louis XV)

In the service of Venus ghastly and unhallowed crimes have been committed, men have braved tempestuous dangers, have renounced magnificence, power, and possessions, confirming the almost thaumaturgic virtue of ‘All for love.’

1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page i

These colors, falling upon the throng of monomachists and loungers much as we see the aureate beams of divine favor fall on hierarchs in art, lent them an appearance insubstantial and thaumaturgic, as though they had all been produced a moment before by the flourish of a cloth and would vanish into the air again at a whistle.

1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 236